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Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work (defector.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The company was sued in 2017 by drivers whose cars drove themselves unexpectedly through garages and into walls; a German paper reported last year on over 2,400 complaints about sudden braking problems; and a safety researcher published a white paper showing how voltage spikes could lead Teslas to speed up without warning.

Remember the relative of some US senator who drove herself into a pond and drowned? Was she driving a Tesla?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

whose idea was it to make the brakes not connected to the actual brakes anyway

im not a car engineer and just the tought of it feels unsafe as fuck

there was a case in i think japan where the car simply accelerated like a rocket out of nowhere and the brakes simply refused to work

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Especially hilarious because it was the relative of former Transportation Secretary.

I know that's not really her job but it sure as fuck sounds funny.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It was